AI scientists warn it could become uncontrollable ‘at any time’

Yoshua Bengio, professor at the Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms, is seen at a lecture event wearing a tan suit with a maroon dress shirt. His mouth is slightly open as he speaks and he is wearing a microphone. His hands are raised as he gestures while speaking on AI. (Credit: Graham Hughes—Bloomberg via Getty Images)

The world’s leading AI scientists are urging world governments to work together to regulate the technology before it’s too late.

Three Turing Award winners—basically the Nobel Prize of computer science—who helped spearhead the research and development of AI, joined a dozen top scientists from across the world in signing an open letter that called for creating better safeguards for advancing AI.